Your Ambition Was Quite Evident…

You were quite ambitious. You set your goals, and you pursued them. It didn’t take you long to realize, however, that what you were pursuing wasn’t going to achieve your deep unspoken aims. Because I had no intention of helping you reach your definition of success, your tone changed pretty quickly. You went from being my chief admirer to my greatest adversary in the span of one week.

Your protest against me was not stronger than the love of my friends, but it did become louder. In your self-righteous indignation and religious hatred, you conspired for my death with brutal stealth. It spread like poison to the masses. This was one goal that you could achieve, and achieve it you did. Unfortunately, you lost a career of love in the process. Thankfully, it’s just for a season.

“So Jesus, perceiving that they were intending to come and take Him by force to make Him king, withdrew again to the mountain by Himself alone”. (John 6:15, NASB)

“The next day the large crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, crying out, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel!” And Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, just as it is written, “Fear not, daughter of Zion; behold, your king is coming, sitting on a donkey’s colt!” His disciples did not understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written about him and had been done to him”. (John 12:12-19, ESV)

“Now it was the custom at the festival to release a prisoner whom the people requested. A man called Barabbas was in prison with the insurrectionists who had committed murder in the uprising. The crowd came up and asked Pilate to do for them what he usually did.

“Do you want me to release to you the king of the Jews?” asked Pilate, knowing it was out of self-interest that the chief priests had handed Jesus over to him. But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have Pilate release Barabbas instead.

“What shall I do, then, with the one you call the king of the Jews?” Pilate asked them.

“Crucify him!” they shouted.

“Why? What crime has he committed?” asked Pilate.

But they shouted all the louder, “Crucify him!”

Wanting to satisfy the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas to them. He had Jesus flogged, and handed him over to be crucified”. (Mark 15:6-15, NIV)

Jamal Jivanjee

7 responses to Your Ambition Was Quite Evident…

We are given the freedom to pursue our ambitions, and they will indeed produce a yield. Some will yield fruit that is pleasant to the eye, and sweet as honeycomb. Others will yield a crop from their ambitions that may appear good to the eye, but when consumed will leave a bitter taste, and will not be digested. It’s all the matter of which ‘tree’ is the source.

“For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’ The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’ But wisdom is proved right by her deeds.” ~ Jesus

Well said Jim. Time is on His side because wisdom will eventually be proved right. Although it may take some time to be seen, only the deeds (works) rooted in and done through indwelling love will remain in the long run.

well speaking by my own experience–if god had not corralled me I would never become a Christian because I did not want to become one I liked my drugs,drinkin,and chasing females for sex–I knew that if I got saved all that would cease and sure enough it did but im glad he grabbed me.